Special to El Rrun-Rrun
Brownsville Herald
Various Sources
The Texas Supreme Court on Monday denied the Motion to Stay and writ of mandamus filed by former City of Brownsville mayor Patricio Ahumada after a district judge's denial of his petition for a temporary restraining order and temporary and permanent injunction against Brownsville City Secretary Yolanda Galarza-Gomez, who deemed Ahumada ineligible to run for mayor again under the city charter’s term-limit rules.
Ahumada filed for mayor with the city secretary’s office on Feb. 15. Secretary Yolanda Galarza-Gomez, in a Feb. 16 letter, informed Ahumada that his application was ineligible due to a May 2021 amendment to the city charter, approved by voters as a ballot proposition, that stipulates a “lifetime term limit” for mayors and other city commission members.
The amendment includes this sentence: “Any time served prior to the approval of this amendment shall count toward the lifetime term limit.”
The ordinance goes on to say it “shall not prohibit any Mayor from completing their current term or a term that begins 2021, but would prohibit any other candidate from running for a term they cannot complete because of term limits.”
In the letter to Ahumada, Galarza-Gomez wrote … “I calculate 73 months of previous elected service as Mayor of the City of Brownsville, in December 1991 to January 1994 and June 2007 to May 2011, which counts as ‘Any time served prior to the approval of this amendment shall count towards the lifetime term limit.’
“Therefore, I determine that your application for a place on the ballot for the position of Mayor for the May 6, 2023, General Election in the City of Brownsville, is not qualified because the Charter prohibits a ‘candidate from running for a term they cannot complete because of term limits.’”
In a Feb. 16 email Ahumada wrote, “This effort to disqualify my candidacy for mayor is political to give John Cowen the mayorship, which I am going to do everything to oppose this improper and illegal shenanigans to deny me my constitutional right to run for mayor and my civil rights.”
Cowen, currently serving as city commission at-large “A,” announced his candidacy for mayor on Nov. 17. Also on the ballot for mayor are Erasmo Castro, Jennifer Stanton and District 2 City Commissioner Jessica Tetreau.
Ahumada wrote in a Feb. 27 email in response to Longoria’s ruling that applying the term-limit amendment to him retroactively 32 years after he was first elected mayor is “dirty politics” and “ludicrous and very obvious political.”
The amendment includes this sentence: “Any time served prior to the approval of this amendment shall count toward the lifetime term limit.”
The ordinance goes on to say it “shall not prohibit any Mayor from completing their current term or a term that begins 2021, but would prohibit any other candidate from running for a term they cannot complete because of term limits.”
In the letter to Ahumada, Galarza-Gomez wrote … “I calculate 73 months of previous elected service as Mayor of the City of Brownsville, in December 1991 to January 1994 and June 2007 to May 2011, which counts as ‘Any time served prior to the approval of this amendment shall count towards the lifetime term limit.’
“Therefore, I determine that your application for a place on the ballot for the position of Mayor for the May 6, 2023, General Election in the City of Brownsville, is not qualified because the Charter prohibits a ‘candidate from running for a term they cannot complete because of term limits.’”
In a Feb. 16 email Ahumada wrote, “This effort to disqualify my candidacy for mayor is political to give John Cowen the mayorship, which I am going to do everything to oppose this improper and illegal shenanigans to deny me my constitutional right to run for mayor and my civil rights.”
Cowen, currently serving as city commission at-large “A,” announced his candidacy for mayor on Nov. 17. Also on the ballot for mayor are Erasmo Castro, Jennifer Stanton and District 2 City Commissioner Jessica Tetreau.
Ahumada wrote in a Feb. 27 email in response to Longoria’s ruling that applying the term-limit amendment to him retroactively 32 years after he was first elected mayor is “dirty politics” and “ludicrous and very obvious political.”
Senior Judge Jose Longoria said no to Ahumada’s petition and request for a temporary restraining order and temporary and permanent injunction against Brownsville City Secretary Yolanda Galarza-Gomez, who deemed Ahumada ineligible to run for mayor again under the city charter’s term-limit rules.
Ahumada then filed an appeal with the state Supreme Court based on Article 1, Sec. 16, of the Texas Constitution, which states: “No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, retroactive law, or any law impairing the obligation of contracts, shall be made.”
Ahumada then filed an appeal with the state Supreme Court based on Article 1, Sec. 16, of the Texas Constitution, which states: “No bill of attainder, ex post facto law, retroactive law, or any law impairing the obligation of contracts, shall be made.”
On Monday afternoon, Ahumada, – who filed pro se, or on behalf of himself as his own attorney – was notified by the Texas Supreme Court his emergency appeal had been denied.
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(Pat Ahumada has had his 15 minutes of fame. Say goodnight, Pat.)
Tx SC should hear Golonksskys case of land sold to PUB Tenaska illegally and how they profit millions off the backs of Brownsville taxpayers
Haven't city voters done that lately?
yes.
(Looks like the pest BOBBYWC was wrong. Again. no wonder his blog failed.)
pos, ahora que? mudarse para San Bene y lanzarse para alcalde? Dicen que el politico nunca renuncia. Este guey ya perdio muchas. Y todavia se cree El Rey.
ja ja ja
de pedos!
"I deny Ahumada's candidacy!" - city voter
Ni modo Pat. Se te acabo el corrido . Turn out the lights…. Sorry Pat , you had your chance and you blew it big time!!! Bottom of the barrel candidates running for mayor of Brownsville. What a shitshow in this town ,with no end in site.
Texas Supreme Court denies Pat Ahumada's audacity.
Ouch! Too bad Pat.
The fact they denied it without an opinion means they could not agree. You can hate the man all you want, but at least he was willing to try. The first thing I googled was Texas AG opinions retroactive laws city and this is what I got in the last sentence "If a city charter term limit provision applies to service as a city officer prior to its adoption, it does not impair a vested right and therefore is not a “retroactive law”
prohibited by article I, section 16." https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/opinion-files/opinion/2005/ga0356.pdf Had the city attorney done this simple research instead of lying to the trial judge about how TRO's work there never would have been a mandamus. But the other side is a review of the case law shows U.S. Supreme Court and Texas Supreme Court changes it standard in every case. Image the outrage against the Court had they agreed with Governor Abbott citizens have no vested interest in running for public office. What does that have to do with retroactive? Nothing. Even Roy de Los Santos on a podcast came out against term limits. His reasoning was solid. Do you really want a former commissioner or mayor who was very good and knowledgeable being barred from serving on the city commission? He did keep Ahumada out of the discussion. These type cases are about the principle and not the candidate. I would never vote for Tetreau, but I voted against term limits. I stand with the people to decide who wins even if I oppose the winner. Where do you stand? We are not in Russia where draconian laws keep people of the ballot. We are in the US where the people decide.
Bobby WC
Cannot vote for the two clowns, Jessica the flake and Cowen the unknown, so Erasmo is left because Pat is gone? The women are no good but to get drunk.
Onta el cheque?
Juan, pat es un héroe. El si pelea por el pueblo. Que mal que los gabachos de Austin no le quisieron ayudar. La corrupción seguirá! Fuera con la mierda de Brownsville! Viva Pat Ahumada!
I strongly believe that Mr. Pat Ahumada "Civil Rights" have been unjustly denied by the highest and most respectful court of our great nation!!! It has failed to protect our constitutional right under the governing law of nation, that being the "Grandfather Clause"!!!
Quated from the "Cornell Law School" LII Legal Information Institute.
"Grandfather clause refers to a section of a law, regulation, or other legal document that limits how changes will be applied to legal relations and activities existing prior to the change. When laws and regulations go through major changes, they can critically harm businesses or individuals who relied on the prior system. So, legislators, regulators, and businesses often negotiate grandfather clauses to make the changes apply only to new activity. Businesses or individuals who were partaking in the regulated activity prior to the change can continue to do so after the law or regulation goes into effect. Grandfather clauses can last forever, or they often can be limited. For example, legislators requiring power plants to be carbon neutral may allow currently operating power plants to be grandfathered for ten years, giving them ten years to prepare for the change.
The term grandfather clause comes from a racially driven set of voting laws in the South after the Civil War. Many Southern states began requiring individuals to satisfy literacy tests, property ownership, and poll taxes in order to vote. In these laws, exceptions were made for individuals whose grandfathers voted for war, allowing them to avoid the new requirements. Since essentially no African Americans were able to vote in these states prior to the Civil War, only white citizens were able to benefit from this grandfather exception. This effectively prevented most African Americans from being able to vote after the implementation of these laws. The grandfather clause in this law, which limited their application to prior voters, became the term for any clause that has an effect of not applying to individuals doing an activity prior to the law.
[Last updated in February of 2022 by the Wex Definitions Team]
Guess we're stuck with the same do nothing dumb asses and ratas. I ain't voting for any of them. Leaving the mayors section blank. They all had their chance and they all did Brownsville and it's citizens badly wrong.
Bet he had Tenaska shitting.
Why???
Hey comrade at 4:46 - I defy you to and post a comment by me wherein I said Pat would win. I repeated posted I would not bet a penny on the outcome of the case. The law is as old as the Magna Carta of 1215. I was up all night Sunday reading Kinga Bench decisions back to 1238 to see how they applied the prohibition against retroactive law. I read everything written by Blackstone, and every Texas Supreme Court case, and many U.S. Supreme Court case. They all had one thing in common no one defines the meaning of retroactive. I could not find one set standard and from case the analysis changed. I even read the Constitution Minutes wherein scribes wrote down every work by the Founding Fathers during the debates, and nothing more than saying they should be unconstitutional. This is why I never took a prediction position. BUT GOOD FOR YOU COMRADE YOU PREFER THE RUSSIAN SYSTEM WHERE Putin can pass last minutes laws to keep his opponents of the ballot. Good for Roy de Los Santos for openly opposing the term limits, shame on Jessica who was also a victim for hiding in the corner and saying nothing.
Even before Sunday I has read enough to know their is no clear case law.
The Texas Supreme Court knew had they issued an opinion against Pat it would cost them. Please tell us how a law applied to someone for something they did more than 30 years ago is not retroactive?
You are the legal genius now tell us and don't be a coward tell us your name. You are why we now live is a Troika dictatorship, you prefer the Courts rule against all the people instead of ruling for all the people because you hate the person who filed the lawsuit. What a short sided twit you must be.
It doesn't matter which Republican brings the racism, so long as they all bring it -
Longtime Donald Trump backers flock to Ron DeSantis event
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@7:35 AM
It's your ugly face and reputation that makes you an easy target. Lies was all you posted on your failed blog. The commenter, like all of us, knows that.
p.s.: Fuck off.
you called Montoya a drunk how many times?
Voting for Stanton, out of toner at least we know she is a fighter, all the other clowns we already know they wont do a darn thing, Where is our PUB REFUND PUTOS? GO STANTON.
BobbyWC is a troll. Has nothing else to do. His life is over must be his state of mind. Why else would he post nonsense as if shit, here and on Barton's blog? On Barton's, Bobby's comments look like turds.
fact.
@10:37
Why not put your name into the race?
Step up to the plate!!
So you admit you cannot one post anywhere wherein I said Pat will win. You cannot post on lie I ever told. When I broke the Casa del Nylon story immediately after Zamora left the executive session everyone jumped on that story. When I broke the story that a convicted felon was trying to get millions from Brownsville for a bogus airline, everyone not only jumped on it they took claim.
Name one lie, just one. You cannot comrade because your hate keeps twits like you shortsided.
My blog never failed. I just chose to spend endless hours working with federal and state agencies to address the endless corruption you seem to support. You say all the commenters know you tell the truth, but the majority support Pat for the fight.
Bobby WC
Now this is will be like la gran southmost a district represented by a do nothing gringa. Here we are expecting a gringo to win so this will be a do nothing city for 4 years.
BRING IN THE BANKS AND CONTINUE WITH THE LAND STEALING SHANANAGANS, GRINGO STYLE!!!
you meskins ain't seen nothing yet, this will become the early 1800. FACT.
TIME TO LEARN TO WRITE BOLA DE PENDEJOS
WE NEED A WRITE-IN CANDIDATE DO IT PAT or use your 380.
MAJOR SUPREME COURT OPINION WILL IMPACT HOW MANAGEMENT IS PAID TO INCLUDE OT
SUPREME COURT RULES MANAGEMENT IS ENTITLED TO OT
If they are paid hourly or by the day. This is a game changer. In this case the managerial person was paid by the day a set fee and the Supreme Court found that is the same as paying by the hour which mandates overtime. So if you are management, but paid hourly they now have to pay you overtime.
https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/22pdf/21-984_j426.pdf
Company to sell USS Kitty Hawk, other ship memorabilia
WONDER WHO OWNS THIS COMPANY ANY ELECTED OFFICIALS OR EMPLOYEES OF THE PORT?
CHECK IT OUT JUANITO
how many gringitos danced on the charro days parade?
NINGUNO they don't like meskin things fact
I lived here all my life and I have NEVER EVER seen a gringito dancing on the streets during charro days parades. NEVER!!!!
now name your children with a gringo name.
pinches mamones cocos y gringos
BPUB To Resume Service Cutoffs For Overdue Bills
BULL SHIT PAY US BACK THE 150 MILLION YOU STOLE FROM US PINCHES RATAS das why pat was not allowed to run for mayor verdad pat??? take em all to court dale gas
WRITE IN?
Cinemark brings back five classic scary movies to the big screen for one week
You do this during holloween not during las pascuas, easter...
IDIOTAS!!
Yikes! Remote kissing device lets recipient feel your kisses
NO MENTION OF KISS MY ASS AND HOW IT FEELS.
Pandemic-era food stamps ending for nearly 30 million Americans
y aqui los pendejos are giving away monies paid by hard working citizens to other countries and other people that don't live here.
VOTE EVERY BODY OUT VOTE FOR PAT AS A WRITE IN VOTE
writing lessons at tsc everyday go learn...
Marjorie Taylor Greene says she was 'attacked' in a restaurant
She claims it was a taco that crossed the rio grand illegally. babosa
Once a quitter
Always a quitter
What did he say
"I thought it was a paid job"
Did you all see Jessica Tetreau at the parade in her formal gown? She was walking around with a photographer like the paparazzi was following her…no manches! She’s so fake and hope she’s not our next mayor. She’s backstabbed so many people including her best friend Diana. That should tell you what kind of person she is. Vieja fea! And by the way her hair looks disgusting. Change hairdressers!!!! Those extensions and color look horrible.
Thank you Jesus!!!!! We don’t need those clowns running Brownsville!!!!!
It’s time for a female
REMIND ME: How did commissioner Cowen vote in the renaming of East Fronton to Mcnair Street back in 2019? Did he honor the wished of the Fronton property owners?
Should You Worry About Social Security?
Yes if you vote republican. They want to eliminate all government assistance to all citizens. Social security, medicare, all school funding and increase your taxes. But they want to increase their salaries up to 500,000 a year that's half a million.
ugly face! hahahah jajajaja funny, funny funny.
If the people of Brownsville want Ahumada as Mayor can we write his name in? He would not be running we would be picking him.
Colorin colorado este cuento se ha acabado.
Vote for Stanton for Brownsville Mayor at least she is a fighter and new not the old like Jessica the Traitor and John the Coward who both have done and will not do a thing on the BPUB $140 million dollar Scandal. We are still waiting for a small refund if any while the former PUB CEO John Bruciak retired with millions in his pocket plus a nice cushy retirement package. Lets have a new face and new ideas at City hall folks, time to put out the GARBAGE.
5:17 a.m. you can write in Mickey Mouse if you want to. He just has to be careful about his campaign signs.
Even if he loses it sends a bit message to this Putinesque Commission for using an Ordinance to keep qualified candidates off the ballot. Putin tells his legislature to rubber stamp new laws keeping his opponents off the ballot and they do it.
No sitting Commissioner should receive a vote - especially Putinesque Commissioners Cowen, and Tetreau. They need this label.
I am not saying Pat would be a good mayor, but if thousands of people write in his name, a very strong message will be sent. You can hate Pat all you want, The message will be the people still control the election and not Putinesque commissioners such as Cowen and Tetreau. Pat will not win, but the message will be sent. But if he were to win, he would be allowed to file a new lawsuit asking term limits undermine democracy and the proven will of the people. You can still hate Pat. He is not the issue. It is our Putinesque election. If you oppose someone on the ballot instead of going head to head you just pass a law keeping them off the ballot.
Are we not a better people than that ?
Roy de Los Santos without mentioning Pat came out against term limits. If you believe Roy is fighting for the people in short order he will not be allowed to run and a good commission will be gone. Is that what you want?
Bobby WC
I remember when I was going to cummings before the zoo was built all of a sudden a dry cleaners opened shop there. It amazed everybody. What is a dry cleaners doing en este barrio? On the corner of ringgold and sixth st. Nobody in this area even thinks about a dry cleaners. We all noticed that it was never opened. Well than the city ran everybody living there out of that area and that store remained. Why? The zoo was coming, and who ever that store belonged to more than likely made millions. El ratismo sigue and will never stop. Downtown is the same. People that are related, cronies, compadres are given tips that are worth millions. It will never stop. RATISMO continues to this day. They fight to run for some elected office, just to make millions. That is the reason this city is a cesspool of RATAS.
OUR ONLY SOLUTION TO THIS AGED LONG PROBLME IS TO VOTE EVERYBODY OUT. PERIOD.
there is a need to organize and fight this RATISMO. an organization of honest citizens needs to be organized NOW.
One that will expose all RATAS. Volunteers are needed we need to organize NOW. No families of RATAS will be allowed to join. ORGANIZE NOW!!!
Why hasn’t the DA investigated the theft by BPUB. the report indicates laws were broken.
It's still funny, ugly face, hahahaha jajajaja verdad ese bro? MARICONES
SOUNDS LIKE HE CARES MORE ABOUT HIS FACE THEN HIS REPUTATION. You can't change UGLY even if you were to be reborn again. Ugly is ugly and there is nothing you can do.
Choices????
One female is steadily depressing low down mind messing Working at The Carwash Blues
and a husband beater and the other one is fighting in bars
Do we need a Hero or what
I don't know who this clown, BobbyWC (as in Water Closet? ... weird!) is, but, any way, I love his attempt at coining new terms, such as "Putinesque," but his logic fails completely on these posts, as applied to the COB Commission. He tries to paint the commission as some type of plutocracy, based on a false premise, that the Commission has limited access to be on the ballot, by its decree, when, in fact it was the public that decided, by an 85% margin, to implement term limits. In case you didn't know, Mr. Water Closet: that is called democracy, not plutocracy. Why? Because the citizens decided they wanted term limits, not the commission. What a clown!
Stu Pideaux
To: Anonymous at: February 27, 2023 at 9:58 PM
Sir: did you know that it was the Texas Supreme Court? What a clown! It seems between you and Mr. Water Closet, we are more stupid for reading your comments.
Please ... do better!
Stu Pideaux
Cowan voted to change Fronton st name to kiss his friend Mcnairs ass . Thats what these cliques do. They are a cancer. All these families are millionaires and they have all taken their turn at raiding the city’s cofers. Now Cowan is running for mayor and he has the audacity to put on his political signs something like: vote for me to lower your PUB rates!!! What the fu…is wrong with this a-hole? You’ve had the past 4 yrs to rant/rave and denounce the blatant rape of the citizens of Brownsville by PUB and that con man Bruciak. And Gowen, Tetreau and the rest of the useless city commission,” mums the word” huh??? You must think “ these dumb Brownsvillians will vote for me cause I will lower their light bills”. What about the millions stolen by the Tenaska fiasco??And every time people ask this question you can hear a pin drop!! Nothing!! Nada!! This towns political future is totally fuc…d.
So can we write in Pat? If so how do you write in a candidate? After and under all choices? Never written in a candidate, but I guess I'll Google it.
Two issues: At the bottom of the ballot there is a place for write in. And to the poster you are dead wrong about the commission not being part of term limits. They had to vote to put it on the ballot. The Commission voted to put term limits on the ballot. Another fact you leave out is only 500 people voted on the issue. All this people saw was punishing elected officials with no understanding what it meant. I doubt these super small number of voters even though they were keeping a commission they trust and like from someday running again.
If you think 500 people in Brownsville means the people voted for it, you are a complete idiot of intentional liar. People need to remember if they believe a commission they support and believe in, at some point they will be banned from running for office, it will mean keeping people who actually care from being on the ballot.
But just keep on lying, because that is all you have or ever will have.
Bobby WC
Ecce Homo?
Pat will win as a write-in candidate. Do it show these A-Hs and the state that the people still rule...
DO IT!!!
PEOPLE HERE DON'T NOT WANT TO RE-ELECT ANYBODY, WE NEED CHANGE WE NEED TO KICK OUT ALL LAS RATAS OUT OF THE CITY, COUNTY, PORT, BISD you name it, THEY ALL HAVE TO GO...
STOP CRONISM, COMPADREISM, COMPADREISM, VOTING FRIENDS, STOP THE HIRING OF YOUR FAMILIES, UNQUALIFIED VOTING FRIENDS THIS NEEDS TO STOP!!!
START A HOME IMPOVEMENT PROGRAN HERE WHERE ITS NEEDED NOT GIVE IT TO OTHER COUNTRIES OR PEOPLE THAT DO NOT LIVE HERE. STOP ALL THE NON-SENSE PROJECTS THAT DO NOTHING FOR THE CITY MURALS, BIKE TRAILS ETC ETC ETC.
SUE BPUB TO GIVE THE MONEY THAT WAS STOLEN, BACT TO THE TAXPAYERS AND TAKE ALL OF THEM TO JAIL. START AN INVESTIGATION NOW.
FIX THE STREETS, TRAFFIC LIGHTS, FLOODING, START AN AIRPORT, BUS SHELTERS, STOP THE SENSELESS SPENDING.
FREEZE HIGH PAYING JOBS INCREASES SALARIES BUT NOT THE WORKING EMPLOYEES.
If you want the same old group Fking the citizens of Brownsville like Cowens, Galonsky, Lucios, Martinez,Trevinio, etc these fkers are all connected then vote for Cowen for Mayor and if you do vote for him your just pendejos plain and simple.
just write on the ballot patricio almuada
March 1, 2023 at 11:38 PM
Orale pat tell one of your voter how to vote as a write-in.
Post instructions on your campaign posters specially en el gran southmost where a gringa won and nobody voted for her...do it
How long was O. Brand mayor in McAllena ND gown much did he accomplish?
What is the purpose of the 2 term limits?
Asking for a friend
If el gran southmost gets to elect somebody it won't, because they don't know how to write (or read). So how did la gringa win? There is ONE gringo living in that area. People are saying that he voted gringo so das how she won.
Next pachanga please include pencils and pens and maybe a professor from TSC to instruct estos poresitos on how to vote for a write-in candidate and over-ride the gringo power (one vote) in voting.
@March 1, 2023 at 9:00 PM
TEXAS SUPREME COURT DENIES PAT AHUMADA'S CANDIDACY
Special to El Rrun-Rrun
Brownsville Herald
Various Sources
The Texas Supreme Court on Monday denied the Motion to Stay and writ of mandamus filed by former City of Brownsville mayor Patricio Ahumada after a district judge's denial of his petition for a temporary restraining order and temporary and permanent injunction against Brownsville City Secretary Yolanda Galarza-Gomez, who deemed Ahumada ineligible to run for mayor again under the city charter’s term-limit rules.
What did you not understand pendejo!!!
That compaign pic was taken 30 years ago get a new one, even if you are bald, toothless y cara toda engaruniada, who cares las viejas que se calentavan con ese foto tambien estan igual...fact
I hope they are NOT attorneys at: March 5, 2023 at 9:29 AM March 1, 2023 at 9:00 PM February 27, 2023 at 9:58 PM.
No wonder the judges here think they are God, they win all the time.
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